"The real threat to a hierarchy is a successfully organized social network" | Niall Ferguson #shorts
December 1, 2023
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as posted by the channelIf you want to understand what a truly hierarchical political system looks like, just look at Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union, says historian Niall Ferguson.
This YouTube Short is from our longer video titled "Why hierarchical power breeds paranoia: Stalin, Xi Jinping, Macbeth"
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